Old Fashion Museum

G they're moving!  Run!

Indiana Gones

S was sick, again, with another flu so I took G down to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles yesterday.  NHM is an old fashion, stuff them animals, and placed 'em in an artificial diorama.  It was great!  Huge dark halls with windows to various exhibits, like a look into the past.  The museum has some updated exhibits and is more interactive that I would have expected but the appeal of large dark halls with examples of amazing taxidermy work is something you don't see too often.  G is a dino freak so he loved the T Rex vs Triceratops bones in the lobby, got scared with the huge ceiling hung whale bones, and seemed reserved about the stuffed animals.

As I said, this place is dark and I had my old digital camera cranked up to 1250 ISO. That means a ton of noise reduction out of camera.  For small pictures like these, no big deal, but there was also a ton of cross gamma issues with the lighting.  So in Photoshop I switched the images from RGB to CMYK and keeping in mind that for human skin, the M and Y colors should be pretty close in value, so adjusted as needed and also cut some of curves short.  Almost got the colors right.

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